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Can Waymo justify a $100 billion valuation? That’s a question investors will answer as Alphabet’s autonomous ride-hailing company discusses raising funding at a valuation that amounts to 280 times its annualized revenue—many times higher than other ride-hailing companies.
Waymo’s rapid expansion in recent months—despite some hiccups such as a service suspension during a San Francisco blackout—suggests it can grow into that valuation. Revenue should rise as it adds riders and new services in cities, either.
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In a new research paper published this week, DeepSeek’s founder and researchers proposed a new technique that makes AI models more efficient by allowing them to retrieve simple factual information without relying on a compute-intensive process. The technique, called Engram, enables AI models to ... Read more ›
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